Update: Progress toward global eradication of dracunculiasis, January 2007-June 2008

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 57, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 1173-1176

  Hopkins, D R ^a   Ruiz Tiben, E ^a   Eberhard, M L ^b   Roy, S ^b  

^a CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^b CDC

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DRACUNCULIASIS; HEALTH; HUMAN; VIOLENCE;

AFRICA; DRACUNCULIASIS; HUMANS; VIOLENCE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 55249127145     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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